Sacramento daily record-union., 1887-08-06
M1sHEFREsENr1Na CALIFORNIA.

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The letter to the Commercial Advertiser,
of New York, from Santa Monica in this
State, treating of Northern and Southern
California, aud a telegraphcd synopsis OF
which has appeared here, it cannot be
denied Is frank, and in some respects cor
rect IN Judgment; as, for instance, where
the writer declares there is no reason for
rivalry between the two main Topographic.
cal divisions of the State, and that inyid.
ious comparisons between the sections Is
just to neither. But what must have been
his reading or his observation. to have
moved him TO say that ''the papers OF
Northern California, aggrieved at seeing
the tide Of prosperity sweeping this way
(southward), have perhaps done little to
present the country in its true light"
As a matter Of fact the press of Northern
California has been fair, open and true in
the representations concerning California,
and the whsle of it, Such exceptions as
may be claimed relate to papers of no
special Importance, and even they are very
few and were moved by a spirit Of retalia-
tion for assaults referred to hereafter.
The idea that the Northern and Central
sections have felt "aggrieved" at the
prosperity Of the south end is simply and
assuminsly absurd. At the east, however,
the allegation may be received in manner
TO do US much harm. People who accept
the letter of &c. F. H." az verify. must
form very singular and unjust estimate
Of California spirit. The fact is that the
North and Central regions have been
greatly gratifed, and have so expressed
themselves, at the booming of the South
for its gain is that of the whole State.
That section cannot prosper, without the
entire State being benefited, and reasonable
and thinking men will realize this.
The central and northern regions aside
from the mining in the mountains have
been devoted mainly 10 agriculture, viii
culture and horticulture. All great grain
growing countries are conservative; large
land-hoidiags and large farming do not
cultivate enthusiasm in building State
they DO not promote the fever OF specula-
tion, nor contribute to the speedy or best
settlement Of country. But large farm
ing and lsrge land-holding are being rap
Idly corrected here, and small holdings
small farms and diversified agriculture are
taking their place. California is the second
grain-growing State OF the Union, pro-
duees more than one-tenth of all the wheat
grown ia the United States, and nearly
two-thirds of all the barley. Nine-tenths
Of these products are raised in the two sec
tions criticized by G. Z. II. as given mainly
to mining and vineyards
These same sections contain the chief
cities Of the State; over three-fourths of
the population; the chief educational in
stitutiors; seven-tenths of the commerce
of theS;a,e aowsin theirchannels, and nine
tenths Of the industries of California are
here prosecuted. Here are the chief rivers
and harboTs, the metropolis of the coast
and the capital of the State. The great
mining sections are upon our eastern
borders, and the vast lumber regions Of the
State are wholly within northern and CEN
tral bounds here most attention is given
to raising fine stock, Here are the prin-
cipal vineyards; here is produced
six-tenths Of the wine, and nearly
one-han Of the raisins of the State.
1t is in these sections that
about al the deciduous fruits and yege-
table products are grown, and it is from
here that there are sent tri-weekly special
train-loa6s Of deciduous fruits and of yeee-
tables to the regions east of the Sierras and
the Rocky Mountains, and not pound of
which class Of products are shipped from
the South, and very few pounds, compared
with cur yield, are grown there. Here are
the coal and the quicksilver mines, the
granite q1arries and chief building stones,
and in the northern and central valleys, by
reason Of certainty of rainfall, agriculture
is an assured industry, and irrigation is
not essential for ordinary farming, if we
except some portions OF the west side of
the San Joaquin valley In the central
aud north sections arc the great val
ieys that have given the State its world
wide fame as a producer, and here, too, are
the foothill regions, Which, for fruit and
vine products, have proved so vastly rich,
and now teen with prosperous and pro-
gressive communities.
To give currency to the false idea that
sections th..s blessed, in which are the most
fertile soils aud the largest production
and the metoorology of which the official
reports demonstrate to be the equal in all
respects, ard the superior in several, of the
region more southerly, as TO temperature,
dryness Of atmosphere and general desir-
able conditions, are "agsrieved" at the
sudden development of the extreme south